Buprestoidea
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Buprestoidea is a superfamily
Taxonomic rank
In biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...

 of beetle
Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...

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It contains two families:
  • Buprestidae Leach 1815, the jewel beetle
    Jewel beetle
    Buprestidae is a family of beetles, known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 species known in 450 genera...

    s or metallic wood-boring beetles.
  • Schizopodidae
    Schizopodidae
    Schizopodidae is a family of beetles, in the large suborder Polyphaga, containing the following three genera:* Dystaxia LeConte, 1866* †Electrapate Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1962* Glyptoscelimorpha Horn, 1893* Schizopus LeConte, 1858...

    LeConte 1861
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